Qualidade de vida, opinião pública e ação de bairro. A trajetória do movimento antiverticalização em São Paulo
This article describes the development of the antiverticalization movement, a social movement that appeared in the early years of the new millennium in a historic neighbourhood of the western zone of São Paulo. The movement, made up of neighbours with strong community ties, fights for a better quali...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/3992 |
| Summary: | This article describes the development of the antiverticalization movement, a social movement that appeared in the early years of the new millennium in a historic neighbourhood of the western zone of São Paulo. The movement, made up of neighbours with strong community ties, fights for a better quality of life and opposes the real estate speculation that has de-characterized the region. In this sense, it is a descendant of the popular participation and active citizenship experiments that have marked Brazilian political culture in recent years. The article discusses the limits and ambiguity of the public authorities, anchored in a distributive growth coalition in the form of the ‘onerous license’. The text concludes with the suggestion that the participants in social struggles that aim to preserve their critical content are engaged in a kind of work that fuses different social roles, particularly those of the technical expert and the activist. |
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| ISSN: | 0254-1106 2182-7435 |